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From: Arthur Alacar <art@pili.adn.edu.ph>
To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
cc: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: StarOffice start-up time(slow)
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> > On my system, a 5X86-133 with 40 megs of ram, it takes 2 or 3 *minutes*
> > for any StarOffice app to start doing something. Once up, StarWriter
> > (at least) runs OK. (Stardraw crashes).
> > 
> > I'm running 3.0-SNAP (970807) .
> > 
> > Is this to get you to buy the commercial version 8) ?
> > 
> > -Jim Durham
> 
> 
> I had the same question a couple months ago. The response I got was that
> this was by design, for reasons, that I don't remember other than they
> made no sense. It annoyed me too much to use. I'm back to Win95 and
> 123-97 and Word 6 (won't use anything new, WAY to bloated).

am running StarOffice pretty fine on FreeBSD-2.2.2-RElease
Pentium Pro 64Mb ram

works good.

|art|